Professor Sarah Joseph

Research Interests

Constitutional Law
Human Rights

Supervisor Profile

Qualified to supervise: Honours; Masters; PhD;

Current projects under supervision

Honours:

No current projects

Masters:

Current projects:
The military and the delivery of aid

Child labour and the WTO

PhD:

Four current projects: Cultural Relativism and Modes of Punishment; East Timor, the Right to Housing, and International Aid Agencies; The Human Rights Responsibilities of Global Economic Actors; The Scope of Substantive Discrimination in the Federal Racial Discrimination Act

Editorial Boards

Member, Human Rights Law Review

Grants and Commissions

2005: "The World Trade Organisation and Human Rights", with Professor J Waincymer and Professor D Kinley, $240,000

2005: Don Chipp Foundation Grant, "Bills of Rights in an Age of Terror", First Chief Investigator with Dr J Debeljak, Mr P Emerton and Ibrahim Abraham, $5000

2004: The Accountability of Human Rights NGOs, funds for a research assistant, Monash Law Faculty small grant, $2900

2002-04: The Human Rights Responsibilities of Multinational Corporations, ARC Linkage Grant awarded in September 2001, with Professor D. Kinley, M. Davison, and J. Schultz (Monash University), worth $350,000+ over 2002-4.

2000: Funds to employ indexer for The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Cases, Materials and Commentary (co-author with Jenny Schultz and Melissa Castan), small grant awarded by the Monash University Law Faculty, $2500

1993-4: The United Kingdom's compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Airey Neave Research Fellowship, with Professor D. Harris (University of Nottingham), ₤ 32,000

Publications

2007

Joseph, S. 'Trade to Live or Live to Trade:  The World Trade Organization, Development, and Poverty’, in M. Baderin and R. McCorquodale (Eds), Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Action (OUP, 2007)  (Forthcoming)

Joseph, S. 'Liability of Multinational Corporations:  International and Domestic Laws and Procedures'.  (2007) In Malcolm Langford (Ed.) Social Economic Rights Jurisprudence:  Emerging Trends in International and Comparative Law. Cambridge University Press. (Forthcoming)

Complete listing of publications, including those prior to 2007